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  • Thumbnail for Keel laying
    Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction. It is often marked with a ceremony attended by dignitaries...
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    structures. Lay methods consist of J-lay and S-lay and can be reel-lay or welded length by length. Pipelaying ships make use of dynamic positioning systems...
    2 KB (321 words) - 23:45, 29 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Net laying ship
    A net laying ship, also known as a net layer, net tender, gate ship or boom defence vessel was a type of naval auxiliary ship. A net layer's primary function...
    10 KB (994 words) - 16:01, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cable layer
    A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, for electric power transmission, military...
    41 KB (4,812 words) - 10:41, 14 July 2024
  • "Lay Lady Lay", sometimes rendered "Lay, Lady, Lay", is a song written by Bob Dylan and originally released in 1969 on his Nashville Skyline album. Like...
    30 KB (2,710 words) - 10:57, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ailanthus-class net laying ship
    The Ailanthus class were a group of 35 wooden-hulled net laying ships of the United States Navy built during World War II as part of the huge building...
    11 KB (410 words) - 11:59, 7 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Solitaire (ship)
    Solitaire is a large deep-sea pipe laying ship. It was at the time of conversion the world's largest pipe-laying ship at 300 metres (984 ft) long (excluding...
    6 KB (408 words) - 19:27, 22 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for CS Mackay-Bennett
    CS Mackay-Bennett (category Cable laying ships)
    The Cable Ship Mackay-Bennett was a transatlantic cable-laying and cable-repair ship registered at Lloyd's of London as a Glasgow vessel but owned by...
    16 KB (1,675 words) - 12:06, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gremyashchiy-class corvette
    Gremyashchiy-class corvette (category Proposed ships)
    official laying down ceremony took place on 1 February 2012.[citation needed] Although classified as corvettes by the Russian Navy, these ships carry sensors...
    17 KB (1,180 words) - 15:30, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Container ship
    A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a...
    81 KB (7,977 words) - 07:06, 24 June 2024
  • and guitar With Saskia Maxwell – singing on "Ship of Ishtar", "Lunar Invocation" and "Asleep Do We Lay" Gong – additional instruments Frank Byng – cymbal...
    4 KB (323 words) - 14:18, 25 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Aloe-class net laying ship
    Aloe-class net laying ships were a class of thirty-two steel-hulled net laying ships built prior to the US entry into World War II. The lead ship, USS Aloe...
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  • Thumbnail for Lay Zhang
    born (1991-10-07)October 7, 1991), known professionally as Lay Zhang or simply Lay, is a Chinese rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, actor, record producer...
    104 KB (9,194 words) - 07:01, 25 July 2024
  • Master "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", a 1970 song by Melanie Keel laying or "laying down", the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction...
    816 bytes (134 words) - 20:53, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ship
    A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions...
    100 KB (11,654 words) - 23:11, 30 July 2024
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    Keel (redirect from Ship’s keel)
    often the first part of a ship's hull to be constructed, and laying the keel, or placing the keel in the cradle in which the ship will be built may mark...
    9 KB (1,013 words) - 07:50, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of active Russian Navy ships
    ships presents a picture which can never be fully agreed upon in the absence of greater data availability and a consistent standard for which ships are...
    237 KB (9,959 words) - 20:57, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of largest cruise ships
    Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, passenger ships primarily used for transportation across seas...
    110 KB (5,153 words) - 03:37, 3 August 2024
  • Edith Pretty (category Ship burials)
    Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local excavator and amateur archeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the...
    19 KB (1,751 words) - 11:51, 5 July 2024
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    HMS M33 (category Royal Navy ship names)
    the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being...
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